My plan is to post translations of and comments on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Please feel free to comment.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

4.4661 To be sure, even in tautologies and contradictions signs are still combined with one another, i.e. they stand in relations to one another, but these relations are meaningless [bedeutungslos], inessential to the symbol.

There is a question whether signs and symbols are the same things. Here it certainly seems that they could be.